Black diamond Mt Shasta, CA
Black Bear drops 966 vertical feet over 2,771 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 1,500 feet below the top. That's steeper than 48% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 4th steepest of 34 named runs at Mt Shasta. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 21°, Black Bear gets about 127% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mt Shasta does, December through March. That's sunnier than 91% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Mt Shasta. Its top sits at 6,860 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.